Shinsen waka

新撰和歌(しんせんわか)

新編国歌大観 II.3

This is a collection of 361 poems that Ki no Tsurayuki compiled based on an Imperial command from Daigo to collect the best poems from the Kokin wakashū. They are reorganized into pairs of poems and shorn of their prose contexts and author attributions. Despite the instruction, the collection contains some poems not included in the KKS. The collection may have been assembled in the 930s, and includes a Chinese preface. Helen McCullough's Brocade by Night has a chapter that treats this work in detail.

Volume 1: Spring and Autumn

KKS 2(1), KKS 3(2), KKS 39(9), KKS 10(13), KKS 24(11), KKS 13(15), KKS 4(17), KKS 5(19), KKS 41(21), KKS 18(25), KKS 20(27), KKS 21(29), KKS 22(31), KKS 25(33), KKS 31(35), KKS 49(37), KKS 59(39), KKS 60(41), KKS 51(45), KKS 55(47), KKS 68(49), KKS 27(59), KKS 26(61), KKS 66(65) KKS 53(69), KKS 74(71), KKS 22(73), KKS 43(89)